Two IB schools locked down in bomb scare

IMPERIAL BEACH  Mar Vista High School and Imperial Beach School in Imperial Beach were put on lockdown Tuesday after someone called and said they had placed six bombs around the high school campus, sheriff’s and school officials said.

The anonymous call was placed to the high school on Elm Avenue about 2:30 p.m. Authorities evacuated students at both schools about 3:30 p.m. and a bomb squad was going to search Mar Vista High.

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Imperial Beach School, in the South Bay Union School District, was locked down as a precaution, according to the district website. A district employee said children were directed to meet parents along Imperial Beach Boulevard east of the school.

Parents also were reunited with their children at the Imperial Beach sheriff’s substation on Imperial Beach Boulevard at Ninth Street.

When the bomb threat was phoned in, a sheriff’s school resource officer at Mar Vista High advised staff to keep students indoors. They would have been released for the day at 2:30 p.m., Sweetwater Union High School District spokesman Manny Rubio said.

Several deputies went to the campus on Elm Avenue to investigate, sheriff’s Lt. Eddie Brock said. He said no suspicious devices were found.